Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thinnest- lipped moralist. The trouble with the picture now is that it not only fails to offend, but fails to excite. The best fun in seeing it comes from noting where the ghost of its former salacious self, keeps bobbing up between the lines and leering. But wherever Sex has stuck its head across the line into Will Hays's never-never land of tight sweaters and kisses that last more than seventy seconds, the censor's scissors have snipped it off neatly...
...last fifty years have taught something to the American press. It has learned that overtone and innuendo sell a lot of papers, that a sex-angle will keep a run-of-the-mill murder story alive for weeks. The right to sensational journalism is indisputable. Newspapers are a business like any other business, and like any other business they depend on public demand. Freedom of the press pre-supposes variety in journalism, and it's the job of the individual to weed the good from the bad. But when the press distorts this freedom by reporting a war effort with...
...schools, ranging from Denver's public high schools to Massachusetts' swank Milton Academy, eventually delivered four classes (1936 to 1939) to the colleges. A staff of impartial college judges paired each of 1,475 Progressive students with a conventional-school graduate of the same intelligence, sex, age, interests, family background...
Thereupon the schools addressed themselves to problems of living and working. To their students this meant learning how to study, to choose and get a job, to get along with one's family, to solve the problems of sex, marriage, food, clothes, houses, government, "the meaning of life...
...Cabell's books have the urbanity and elegance, the polite understatement of enormous evil and the wily circumlocution of enormous sex, which Mr. Cabell's admirers admire. At 62, there seems no good reason why he should either stop his writing or change its character...